Pull low-level x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"In this cycle this topic tree has become one of those 'super topics'
that accumulated a lot of changes:
- Add CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y support to the core kernel and enable it on
x86 - preceded by an array of changes. v4.8 saw preparatory changes
in this area already - this is the rest of the work. Includes the
thread stack caching performance optimization. (Andy Lutomirski)
- switch_to() cleanups and all around enhancements. (Brian Gerst)
- A large number of dumpstack infrastructure enhancements and an
unwinder abstraction. The secret long term plan is safe(r) live
patching plus maybe another attempt at debuginfo based unwinding -
but all these current bits are standalone enhancements in a frame
pointer based debug environment as well. (Josh Poimboeuf)
- More __ro_after_init and const annotations. (Kees Cook)
- Enable KASLR for the vmemmap memory region. (Thomas Garnier)"
[ The virtually mapped stack changes are pretty fundamental, and not
x86-specific per se, even if they are only used on x86 right now. ]
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
x86/asm: Get rid of __read_cr4_safe()
thread_info: Use unsigned long for flags
x86/alternatives: Add stack frame dependency to alternative_call_2()
x86/dumpstack: Fix show_stack() task pointer regression
x86/dumpstack: Remove dump_trace() and related callbacks
x86/dumpstack: Convert show_trace_log_lvl() to use the new unwinder
oprofile/x86: Convert x86_backtrace() to use the new unwinder
x86/stacktrace: Convert save_stack_trace_*() to use the new unwinder
perf/x86: Convert perf_callchain_kernel() to use the new unwinder
x86/unwind: Add new unwind interface and implementations
x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention
fork: Optimize task creation by caching two thread stacks per CPU if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall()
x86/process: Pin the target stack in get_wchan()
x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack when dumping it
kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function
sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()
x86/entry/64: Fix a minor comment rebase error
iommu/amd: Don't put completion-wait semaphore on stack
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